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NailO lets you use your thumbnail as a mini trackpad

As technology grows, gadgets these days get smaller and smaller and what we have here is quite a testament. What the researchers from MIT are developing is a miniature device that transforms your thumbnail into a trackpad — meet the NailO.

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NailO basically helps its user accomplish simple tasks on the go. If, for example, you’re following a cooking recipe and your hands are full, you can use NailO to help scroll the page. Another example is you can also use it to send short messages while in a meeting.

As functional as it may seem, the makers behind it also mixed a sense of fashion into the device. They’re planning to also offer interchangeable outer covering with different colors to match the overall theme of the user — kind of like those colorful stickers women use to decorate their nails.

This prototype will be presented next week at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Computet-Human interaction conference in Seoul, South Korea.

Check out their video showing NailO used on smartphones.

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Kevin Bruce Francisco is the Senior Editor and Video Producer for YugaTech. He's a Digital Filmmaking graduate who's always either daydreaming of traveling or actually going places on his bike. Follow him on Twitter for more tech updates @kevincofrancis.

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